Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] to achieve " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aircraft enthusiasts are constantly striving to achieve better photographic results , be it in the form of updating their camera equipment or their knowledge . |
| 2 | I spent a week on the rack , far away from home , constantly trying to achieve this extra margin which , I hardly need to point out , would have gone straight down to the bottom line and would have been shown as profit . |
| 3 | say that women have been discriminated against for so long that they just have n't had the opportunities to rise up through the ranks , and if they are ever going to achieve the kind of representation that they ought to achieve just by the sheer numbers that the represent in the population , apart from the quality , and there are a lot of people who would say that women are probably rather superior erm to a lot of men at an equal level |
| 4 | The District 's Annual Report for 1959–60 said that , although the WEA 's national officers were still trying to achieve this increased grant , the Eastern had exceptionally-strong claims and accordingly ‘ we are now pressing for special consideration ’ : in other words , Jacques was arguing with the Ministry that , even if it could not afford 90% grant to the WEA as a whole , could this not be allowed to the Eastern District individually ? |
| 5 | There are two forms of late hitting , one where a player is deliberately trying to achieve it , and the other where the player does not realise he is hitting too late . |
| 6 | Pieper is also looking to achieve a generic ‘ Unix ’ brand for all Unix vendors . |
| 7 | Penny Downie gives an astonishing performance of self-lacerating despair as the social worker , vainly attempting to achieve merciful oblivion on a bender of drugs and booze , but I felt Diana Rigg could have dug deeper into the character of Rosa , though her prim Englishness undoubtedly makes a fine and comic contrast with Downie 's degradation . |
| 8 | It is not a common pattern in the UK , although many design consultancies are now trying to achieve this . |
| 9 | Such a calculation is not a perfect one , and there is bound to be a failure from time to time if you are really trying to achieve that objective . |
| 10 | What are they really trying to achieve ? |
| 11 | Erm as to the assertion that Harrogate wants office jobs and not industrial jobs , and I think the main point there is that we we 're simply trying to achieve jobs to meet the needs of our resident workforce . |
| 12 | The enlightened bureaucrats who were primarily responsible for drawing up the legislation of 1861 may not have achieved everything for which they were striving , but they were undoubtedly trying to achieve more than the modernization of the gentry 's sources of income or the revivification of the state machine . |
| 13 | So I think the scenario within , within the Health Service is basically that units , rather than working together , working in with each other , are actually competing to achieve contracts to , to , to secure work . |
| 14 | Now I do ask myself this this question erm I can recognise the argument that if you if you 're not actually going to achieve your objectives you have to change your mind . |
| 15 | The EC is currently attempting to achieve greater economic integration with the creation of the Single European market . |
| 16 | She showed a profound deference to the beauty she described , never searching for meaning or metaphor in the landscape , never striving to achieve what Keats would later call the ‘ wordsworthian or egotistical sublime ’ . |
| 17 | There is no question that well designed Italianate lent itself admirably to that display of powerful dignity which the railways were currently trying to achieve . |
| 18 | The first is that the British coal industry will be decimated in the near future ; the second is that the present Conservative Government are actively working to achieve such a decline , together with the substantial job losses that accompany pit closures . |